psychology chapter 5 notes
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- the awareness of the inside and outside of the body; a psychological construct (cannot see or measure directly); emotions - feeling differently about something than someone else does
- consciousness
- aware of things around you; smelling cooking food makes you hungrier because you are conscious of the smell
- sensory awareness
- how you interpret a memory or past experience; you can remember how something tastes, smells, etc. even though you can’t taste or smell it at that moment
- direct inner awareness
- how a person might see in third person point of view; Elmo
- sense of self
- you aren’t aware or thinking of something but you could supply the information needed if prompted
- preconscious
- Freud’s belief; a lot of things are hidden or blocked out; you recall a few events, but not everything because the mind has hidden it to avoid reliving a traumatic experience
- unconscious / subconscious
- deals with biological functions; no one knows the day that they grew; you can’t feel your hair or fingernails growing; you aren’t conscious of your breathing or of your pupils dilating
- nonconscious
- should get an average of 9-10 hours of sleep a night
- teenagers
- should get an average of 16 hours of sleep a night
- newborns
- should average 8 hours of sleep a night
- 20 years - 60 years
- stayed awake from March 14 to April 2
- Robert McDonald
- a 17 year old student from San Diego with sandy colored hair; after the fourth day of staying awake, he was very irritable; on the ninth day he believed that he was a black football hero; on the eleventh day he went to sleep and slept for fifteen hours;
- Randy Gardener
- was a New York DJ who tried to stay awake in Times Square for charity; sat in a glass booth for most of the day; after about four days, he hallucinated and wouldn’t eat; stayed awake for eight or nine days, slept for 13 hours and was back to normal
- Peter Tripp
- 60+ hours without sleep; concentration down; blank staring; difficulty paying attention; increased sensitivity to pain
- sleep deprivation
- you are actually awake but you have sleep waves
- microsleep
- a machine that measures things we need during sleep
- polysomnograph
- measures brain activity; is attached to head
- EEG
- measures eye movement; attached to temple
- EOG
- measures muscle movement; attached to chin
- EMG
- a jerky, twisty type of movement in your sleep
- hypnic jerk
- muscle spasms in the legs; likely to cause insomnia
- myoclonus
- beta waves
- awake
- not a stage of sleep; you close your eyes and your thoughts are wandering; dozing; alpha
- relaxed wakefulness
- waves are present; noises will wake you up; light sleep; 5% of sleep
- stage 1 sleep
- sleep spindles; eyes open but can’t see; harder to wake up; 50% of sleep
- stage 2 sleep
- 5% of sleep; delta waves first appear (high arcing); 20-40 minutes
- stage 3 sleep
- 15%; deep sleep; pure delta waves; sleep walk/talk in first 1/3; about one hour
- stage 4 sleep
- 25% of sleep; takes about 90 minutes to reach it; 4 to 6 occurrences per night; as the night goes on, the periods of sleep lengthen in time; if you’re stressed during the day it increases; newborns have more ___ sleep (50% of the night) and elderly hav
- REM sleep
- sleep more than one time a day; nap; sleep more
- polyphasic
- sleep once per day
- monophasic